rspanos.bsky.social
She/her. Mom of a college student. Wife. School Speech-Language Pathologist. Small town Mayor. Grateful for my life and lack of attention from the world at large. Opinions totally my own. Wish I could make the world better for everyone.
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No taxation without representation. The lack of representation was the issue.
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The caveat for this was supposed to be that we didn’t have a standing army…that didn’t last very long.
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If you recall, they were defended in court by John Adams…because he believed in the rule of law.
He made some really bad decisions later, but we should remember that there were people who stood up for justice.
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I've seen them, but the wider NPR newsreading community may not have. NPR is letting their readers down by not even raising the issue that the President is lawlessly deploying the US military against Americans.
That is not the kind of thing to shrug your shoulders, and pretend is normal.
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If you were hit dont touch your face. Also dont use water or milk. youtu.be/hxdwbZ3Oeyc?...
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She once tied for fifth place in swimming with a trans athlete and has made a career out of complaining about…tying for 5th place?
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When in the battle against Communism, we decided that we should at least appear to not be racist.
It’s unfortunate that we never managed to turn the same kind of lens on ourselves when we were supposedly threatened by religious extremism..and didn’t decide to promote freedom from religion here.
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My folks were from MA!
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Or visiting the town where your parents grew up and hearing them remind each other to turn at the places where things were decades ago.
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Ooh! I was going to say that! What an exciting thing it was to get one and head out on vacation!
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This is nonsense.
Residents can (and do) vote down levies.
Are they trying to destroy local communities?
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So, are you saying that having female genitalia is a bad thing?
Or is resembling female genitalia a bad thing?
Consult a thesaurus.
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Or we could support public health AND research into other cost effective solutions.
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Will they vote against it next time? Assuming there is a next time.
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For me, it’s the NBA. As someone under 5’6’’ and over 40, I am certain they will be deeply upset that they can’t draft me or whatever. NFL too.
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I have a sister named Alice Cooper.
Which is an unfamiliar name to many younger people, apparently.
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I picked those because I am descended from all of them. I am not making any claims about equating the treatment of the Irish with what the US did.
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It would be like saying that since the English colonized Ireland then go ahead and abuse Polish people.
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I mean, they were forced to band together eventually to defend against colonialism, but that was imposed on them.
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Yeah. The context that ‘Africans’ wouldn’t consider themselves a monolith, now or ever.
They weren’t selling people of their own country or ethnicity or group.
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It’s racist to say that because some Africans profited from the slave trade…anything.
Because Africa wasn’t/isn’t a country. There were many different countries and ethnicities. You can’t justify treating a whole continent or skin color in any way.
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Thanks for pointing that out. It’s unfortunate that headlines are too often chosen based on clickbaityness rather than accuracy. I don’t blame the reporters. But the organization should consider their standards in this.
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But I do try to respond with sources to correct the misinformation for the benefit of anyone else who clicks through to comment.
Not on Twitter though. I don’t deal with that anymore.
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I have done this, especially since I live in a place where basically none of my elected representatives reflect my values. I never expect my replies to affect the individual posting nonsense.
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First impressions are hard to overcome. And our brains will struggle to realize and correct information once it has been read.
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Certainly I wouldn’t share a story based solely on the headline. However, I certainly wouldn’t share one if the headline doesn’t accurately reflect the complete article.
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As a consumer of news, and one who shares articles on social media, I am well aware that many people don’t click through, and are exposed to just the headline.
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Exactly! Local government is never actually allowed to campaign on behalf of levies. Just sharing information. Candidates can literally lie with impunity. This just makes no sense.
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After knowing someone who told their child they were going to the casino to get grocery money…this seems like a bad very bad idea.
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Cataract surgery!
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U.S. ….officially= 13 characters. Trump Regime = 11 characters.
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Well ‘we’ doesn’t include all of us in this context. Not all US citizens, even.
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Headlines are important, but very hard to write. They need to accurately reflect both the story and be factual in themselves.
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This is nuts! Who are they planning to attack?
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He’s basically evil. He’s involved in an evil cult. Weird is one thing. But it’s not a secret anymore how the cult has done things for him, and the cult is quite terrible.
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Hmmm. There are plenty of goons who are shorting the market and more than likely paying him back in his personal crypto and other grift that apparently is not illegal anymore.
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Except he doesn’t care about that. More than likely he’s getting paid off by those who can increase their vast wealth by shorting the market or whatever shenanigans they profit from.
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I was just saying how I didn’t think the guy is bad at acting necessarily (he certainly puts in an effort) but he definitely is a bad person.
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The US is now just whatever he says?
Quit attributing the illegal whims of a single man to the whole nation. This wasn’t legal.
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Officially accepted? They could have used more careful words that indicated how it wasn’t in any way legal.
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Which is why I blocked this guy:
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If you want to talk about training young minds, that’s one thing.
If you are talking about persuading adults, don’t start by trying to reason out why you’re better than them.